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The Chronicle (February 2009): An internal newsletter for the Office of the Chancellor

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The Senate Higher Education committee met yesterday afternoon to take up a variety of bills including the governor's higher education proposal, SF 897, authored by Sen. Kathy Sheran, DFL-Mankato, which as a reminder contains a 6 percent reduction to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. As the committee puts together their omnibus bill, members laid SF 897 over for possible inclusion. Chair Michelle Fischbach, R-Paynesville, said committee members will take up the omnibus bill Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. and hear testimony from interested parties. The committee will then reconvene in the evening to take amendments.

The House Higher Education Policy and Finance committee is scheduled to meet today at 12:30 to mark-up the bill, and will reconvene at 5:30, also in the basement hearing room of the State Office Building to finish if necessary. Proposed amendments for the bill can be found at the below links:

Also yesterday was a proposal passed by House Rules committee members that sets the 2012 session start date the beginning of March. The second year of the biennium is the capital budget year and typically shorter than a budget year. The bill now heads to the House State Government Finance committee for consideration in the committee's omnibus bill.